Is bilateral acute otitis media clinically different than unilateral acute otitis media?

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 589-592

  Leibovitz, Eugene ^a   Asher, Elad ^a   Piglansky, Lolita ^a   Givon Lavi, Noga ^a   Satran, Robert ^a   Raiz, Simon ^a,b   Slovik, Yuval ^a,b   Leiberman, Alberto ^a,b   Dagan, Ron ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Bilateral; Clinical score; Haemophilus influenzae; Unilateral

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYRINGOTOMY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA;

EID: 34347340669     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318060cc19     Document Type: Article

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